And this is all I'll say about it

[sabotabby]

 In an age when 120,000 people in the UK die as a result of austerity measures and 79 people are burned alive in their homes because the council couldn't afford proper cladding, cooing over a royal wedding is a grotesque abomination.

Also, my taxes fund this shit too, so yes I get a say.

Comments

[smhwpf]

Y'uh huh. Glad to be over the pond to at least partially avoid it, although the American press are also incomprehensibly excited about the monarchy they had a revolution to get rid of. Apparently Meghan Makhle is American or something? IDK and IDC.

Canada has to help pay for the Windsors? Good grief.

[ltmurnau]

I don't think Americans really want a President any more.
Instead they want royalty, they want a King.
An angry, capricious, violent King who will lop the heads off all the Bad People and Stuff, and found a dynasty of similarly loopy and violent half-wits to succeed him.
Meanwhile, and alongside King Don (which coincidentally, is the name under which Ding Dong chocolate snack cakes are sold in Canada), they have their pretend Ginger Prince and TV star to ogle.
Perhaps you remember the time Americans went made over the Chuck and Di wedding, back in the 80s.

[sabotabby]

I always found Americans' preoccupation with royalty even weirder than ours, and ours weirder than the Brits'.

But I think your theory is correct. You'd think a so violently anti-government people would oppose state-funded celebrities, though.

[sabotabby]

Apparently they courted in Toronto and she now lives there, so of course the news here is all abuzz about that. Like who gives a fuck. There are people on the streets ffs.

A tiny fraction of our taxes goes to the monarchy but even that tiny bit is way too much. If we have to fund something British I'd rather it be the BBC; at least I use that.

Yup.

[franklanguage]

Meghan Markle is an American actress. And I'm so excited I can't contain myself.

[minoanmiss]

Word.

on the day of the previous one, my favorite coworker played "La Marsellaise" over the school loudspeakers.

[sabotabby]

Excellent. I approve.

[nostalgia]

KILL THE ARISTOS

[sabotabby]

DRINK THEIR BLOOD

ABSORB THEIR POWERS

[franklanguage]

That actually sounds pretty gross—as well as being totally non-vegan.

[sabotabby]

I have it on good authority that eating the rich is still vegan.

[the_axel]

As an expert, I can confirm that is true.

[lapinlunaire]

If you want to eat Donald Trump that's your choice but it sounds extremely gross to me tbh

[sabotabby]

Greasy, I think. Too much hamburger. The royals would taste better.

[celluloid_jam]

Agreed 100%.

[sabotabby]

I already can't stand hearing about it.

[angiereedgarner]

So agreed.
The conversations about race have been worth dipping into, though nobody has expressed my view which is something like omg get the nice black lady out of there, those White English people are going to drive her to suicide.

[sabotabby]

I doubt it; she's a celebrity in her own right, and she's used to American racism.

[pofflewomp]

I avoid news so this is the first I heard of it.

But it's not just an abomination. It's intentional. People like to be put in their place, to know their role in the hierarchy and to be made to feel there is pomp and splendour there to paint a pathetic pride in their subordination. It makes them feel secure in their own lower status and smug in their complacency or cruelty to those worse off.
I've been thinking in terms of functionalism a lot recently. Who needs conspiracy theories when the mechanisms are automatically in place and work every time?

[sabotabby]

That's exactly why I find conspiracy theories so ridiculous. It's all there out in the open; why would someone go to more work to hide it?

[pofflewomp]

I read a bit recently about how conspiracy theories are conspiracies to distract the unwitting from the real shit out there in the open.
The conspiracies about conspiracies aspect did my head in somewhat, but it made sense particularly in the context of the "illuminati" being a distraction from real string-pulling baddies and there being a historical anti semitic strain to such theories.
But I haven't actually read any conspiracy theories. I was just googling Mark Passio after telling a friend who was into him about functionalism as a possible alternative to conspiracy.